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Chapter 107 Memories
Lin Yue went into seclusion again. Those who planned to come and see Lin Yue during the summer vacation missed the right time to meet her. At this moment, they regretted not arriving earlier, but Lin Yue was in seclusion.
No one knows how many years Lin Yue will remain in seclusion before she awakens. After all, Lin Yue has fewer and fewer attachments left. First, her parents are gone; second, her close friends are gone; all that remains are her children and descendants.
How many of her children deserve to wake her up again? Her three children would certainly wake her up.
In order to properly seclude herself for cultivation, she has already divided up her family fortune, but she has only divided the fortune in her personal space; the fortune in her husband Gong Yong's space has not yet been divided.
Therefore, it is a good thing for the father-in-law and mother-in-law to separate their property, at least that's what Xiaoxue, the daughter-in-law, thinks.
Xiaoxue is becoming more and more beautiful, thanks to the magic potion her mother-in-law gave her; she looks much younger. On the contrary, Xiaobao, because he stayed at home taking care of the child, has become a slovenly, greasy middle-aged man, and his eight-pack abs have disappeared. Xiaoxue, on the other hand, has become a capable, shrewd woman with a great figure, all thanks to the confidence her mother-in-law gave her.
Some people will definitely ask why Lin Yue's two seclusions were longer each time. The first time she woke up, it was 5 years, and the second time it was 10 years.
After such a long period of seclusion, she seemed to change a lot each time she emerged. The aura she exuded was different from the inside out. Everyone was speculating about the level of her cultivation or what she had experienced.
In fact, no one expected what Lin Yue had gone through; it was something no one could have foreseen.
As we all know, Lin Yue used to be a simple stay-at-home mom. In order to avoid being captured and dissected by some people, she and Gong Yong hid their relationship for many years before finally gaining a foothold in the world.
After that, she only appeared in the public eye when national affairs required her help. Otherwise, she stayed in Chengdu, avoiding political power, power centers, and the pursuit of wealth and profit. Instead, she made many contributions to the country.
You're probably wondering why someone with such a skill wouldn't choose to become a leading lady and shine.
From the author's perspective, and from Lin Yue's perspective, she was just a simple woman who wanted to be happy and carefree; she didn't want to be a leading lady or a queen.
She reluctantly became the family's economic pillar, and then reluctantly became its spiritual pillar. From beginning to end, she did not want to take that step; rather, she was pushed onto that step by everyone else.
She used to think she could stay home and take care of the kids without worry, but in reality, her husband wasn't that reliable. He couldn't support her financially and would occasionally try to brainwash her. That's why she decided to earn her own money. She just didn't want to be shortchanged. As she earned more, she accumulated quite a bit of wealth.
Look, if she hadn't been so cunning, if she hadn't been capable, if she hadn't had a special skill, do you think she, a stay-at-home mom with three children, could have supported a family of five on Gong Yong's salary at the time? Could she? A big question mark.
Perhaps constantly worried about economic matters, the family of five struggled on the edge of poverty.
That's the truth, that's the reality. Everything that changed her fate was simply that Lin Yue accepted a remnant soul, and this remnant soul was actually her own remnant soul, Xue Yang.
You're probably wondering, didn't the remnant soul Xueyang merge with her soul? Did Lin Yue merge with the remnant soul Xueyang, or did the remnant soul Xueyang merge with Lin Yue? You see, from beginning to end, it was Lin Yue who merged with the remnant soul Xueyang.
The remnant soul Xueyang was just a small, broken soul. She came only because of the soul of Lin Yue. Lin Yue was reborn from the beginning, and was just a wisp of her spirit that was reincarnated as Lin Yue.
So even if she is the remnant soul of Xueyang, and the remnant soul of Xueyang is Lin Yue, and Lin Yue has now merged with the remnant soul of Xueyang, then all of the remnant soul of Xueyang's memories are in Lin Yue's mind. So why doesn't Lin Yue use the memories of the remnant soul of Xueyang?
Because Xueyang's memories are fragmented and unsystematic, while Lin Yue's current soul's growth experience is complete, Lin Yue considered that Xueyang's memories could not be used in her current world. Therefore, she sealed Xueyang's memories away and would only open them when needed, rather than integrating them into her own soul, because integrating them might cause her to develop schizophrenia.
Many of Xueyang's fragmented memories are filled with struggles in agony. Lin Yue once opened that part of her memory, only to be bombarded with information. She couldn't bear the images or the suffering. Like some mental patients who, after suffering severe trauma, are unwilling to recall the tragic or bloody scenes, that part of her memory was sealed away as if deleted. After that, whenever Lin Yue saw those sealed memories of Xueyang, she no longer had the courage to open them.
The reason she clicked on it that time was because she went to her sect's territory and opened it through a branch point on the timeline. She heard the video messages of her eldest brother, second brother, and junior sister, and wanted to see what kind of suffering she had endured that made these guardians so afraid to recall it.
When Lin Yue clicked on the link and was then ejected, tears streamed down her face. Yes, what was sealed inside were all the sufferings that the remnant soul of Xueyang had endured over those endless years—it was truly unbearable. How could someone who hadn't tasted the sweetest of joys have survived those tragic years?
Is this what the senior brothers, sisters, junior brothers, and junior sisters in various sects meant for her to endure?
Lin Yue became Lin Yue after her soul was reincarnated.
The remnant soul Xueyang was merely a wisp of soul that escaped from the center of the formation. Once it found its master, it merged with her and became her; she was the remnant soul Xueyang.
Speaking of Gong Yong, he remains in seclusion. Many people are probably wondering why there's been so little information about him; he's only ever followed Lin Yue. Indeed, why isn't there much description of him? This man is of average appearance, not particularly handsome, but still quite good-looking. He has a well-proportioned build, standing at 1.8 meters tall and weighing approximately 140 pounds.
He has a great clothes hanger; any clothes look stylish, beautiful, and handsome on him.
But this handsome guy and Lin Yue met, fell in love, and even got married in school. They were both college students from rural areas.
Compared to Gong Yong's family, Lin Yue's family was happy and harmonious, and she grew up in a much better environment. On the contrary, Gong Yong's family was chaotic and full of arguments.
When Gong Yong first started pursuing Lin Yue, he felt that Lin Yue's family was very harmonious, and her parents spoke gently, with dignity and equality.
Unlike his own home, where his parents always looked like a pair of cross-eyed idiots, they would yell at each other every few words, making it feel like there was never a moment of peace in the house, only the sound of arguing.
When Gong Yong went to Lin Yue's house, he felt that the family was harmonious and peaceful. They discussed things and got things done with smiles and laughter.
On the contrary, Gong Yong's own family shouted and argued for a long time, but no one got anything done. They were the kind of family that couldn't come up with ideas for important matters but were petty about trivial matters.
However, after he and Lin Yue got married and started living together, the couple didn't argue and spent a long time, almost three or four years, being affectionate and loving.
What really caused the couple to argue? It was when their second child was born, and Lin Yue's parents came to help Gong Yong and Lin Yue take care of the child for seven years.
Throughout the seven years, Gong Yong's parents never made any contribution to their family or to their two children.
When I gave birth to my first child, my mother-in-law didn't come, but my father-in-law did, bringing six chickens and 1000 yuan. When I gave birth to my second child, my mother-in-law still didn't come, but my father-in-law gave me 200 yuan, six chickens, and five jin of pork ribs, and that was it.
Therefore, when Gong Yong asked Lin Yuesheng to be the third, the two had a disagreement.
In their previously harmonious family, Lin Yue never raised her voice in arguments. However, because Gong Yong repeatedly spoke hurtfully and yelled, and would yell whenever his demands weren't met, Lin Yue, who had never spoken loudly before, started yelling as well, and both felt like they were going crazy. At that time, weren't Gong Yong and Lin Yue just a replica of Gong Yong's parents?
Lin Yue felt that she had transformed from a gentle and sweet girl into a fiercely competitive but short-tempered woman, easily angered and irritable, like a shrew.
When she realized this, she discovered that her family background had turned her, a woman who had grown up in such a good family environment and was so well-mannered, into a cross-eyed and petty woman.
Lin Yue is able to reflect on herself, correct herself, and examine herself.
Later, Lin Yue took the initiative to calm herself down and stopped being angered by the man's every move and word. Instead, she felt like an outsider watching him perform, like a bystander.
As she watched, she suddenly realized that none of the man's words or glances could affect Lin Yue's emotions anymore.
After that, it became a process of self-cultivation. Lin Yue sought out ways to entertain herself and eventually became independent in personality and financially.
Finally, with the integration of the remnant soul Xueyang, as she began to display her charm, she gradually separated the economy from Gong Yong and made it the main source of income for the family.
Later, because of her cultivation, because of her space, because of her output, because all of this was because of Lin Yue, all the blessings were brought by Lin Yue, all the luck was also brought by Lin Yue, and Gong Yong was just someone who reaped the benefits.
Lin Yue simply said that the children are already so old, and changing to another man might not necessarily be as good to them. At least Gong Yong is the father of these children, so there's no need to change, but not changing feels a bit disgusting.
So the first thing Lin Yue did was to shut her heart away and never open it to this man again. Regardless of whether the economy was good or bad, or how life would turn out, she only cared about how to protect her three children.
Therefore, in the second half of her life, Gong Yong's role was always to accompany Lin Yue. Lin Yue planned her life and raised her children, and he was just a companion.
Even after that, he didn't go to work and continued to do the things Lin Yue arranged for him.
Lin Yue was busy with all the family income and business, while Gong Yong had more free time.
What do you do when you have free time? You either pick up and drop off the children at school, or accompany Lin Yue to plant flowers, grass and fruit trees in the yard, or work in the orchard.
Gong Yong thoroughly enjoys the transformation from someone busy with work to someone living a life like the poet Tao Yuanming described, "picking chrysanthemums by the eastern fence, leisurely gazing at the southern mountains," working at sunrise and resting at sunset in his own space.
My wife is very emotionally stable. He used to have a bad temper, but because my wife is emotionally stable, everyone in the family is emotionally stable as well.
Therefore, in reality, it is so important to have an emotionally stable wife at home who is not swayed by external gains or losses and can take good care of three children.
As for men, just observe what they say, do, or do; don't speak or engage in conversation, and certainly don't chatter in front of them. It's best to just sit quietly.
Sometimes, young girls or girls who have feelings for a man might not be able to do it, but when they reach a certain age, have their own spiritual support, and have their own inner world, they will find that the man is worthless.
What difference does it make whether this man is there or not? So it really is true that those involved are often blinded, while bystanders see things clearly.
My parents once said that choosing a man is like being reborn, and that's true.
However, if one's self-cultivation is insufficient and one cannot keep up with a man's pace, whether others call one a "yellow-faced woman" or say one's figure is not well maintained, it's because one feels that one has not put oneself first and has not taken good care of oneself.
Later, Lin Yue learned her lesson, learned to take care of herself, learned to be self-centered, learned to be selfish, and learned that this was how it was possible to be self-centered.
I'm happy today, so I'll decide what I want to eat to satisfy myself, to please myself, and to make myself happy.
As for Gong Yong, because of his past volatile temper, he may have some issues in the eyes of his three children.
For example, my second daughter would give me a gift for Mother's Day: a painting, which she said was a family portrait, but surprisingly, my father wasn't in it.
Mom asked, "Is Dad in the picture we gave Dad for Father's Day?" Mom said yes, my sister said yes, but he wasn't. "Then where is Dad?"
Lin Yue took the initiative to ask, "Honey, you mean it's for Dad? Happy Father's Day! You drew a family portrait, is Dad in it?" The second and eldest daughters smiled but remained silent.
Lin Yue didn't know what kind of image her second daughter had of her father. At that time, her second daughter was already 6 years old, so children are actually very clear about things. For a period of time, Lin Yue was also very irritable and easily angered.
A good father figure in a child's eyes should be warm, reliable, and full of love.
He will spend time with his children, listening to their thoughts and feelings, whether it's playing together, reading together, or sharing the little things in life.
He will lead by example, demonstrating honesty, kindness, courage, and responsibility, becoming a role model for children to learn from and emulate.
When his children encounter difficulties, he offers encouragement and support, helping them face them bravely, rather than criticizing and blaming them.
He will respect the children's individuality and choices, giving them enough freedom to explore the world, while providing proper guidance when necessary.
A good father will also respect and support the child's mother, working together to create a warm and harmonious family environment for the child.
Do you think this is the kind of father figure you envision?